"Yes. There are four of us playing mahjong, and we won't be missing one again. The people out there were always playing cards, and I lost a few hundred dollars. Chen Feng, do you know how to play mahjong? ”

"No, it won't."

"Do you know how to play chess?" Luo Xiaohang asked.

"This one will."

"Let's play a game of chess, we haven't played chess in a long time."

Luo Xiaohang took down the chessboard, and the two began the next issue, and Ah Wen and Zeng Chao gathered around. Luo Xiaohang's level of chess is not very high, and Chen Feng won three games in a row. Luo Xiaohang didn't have a temper at all, and his face was gloomy. Luo Xiaohang said unhappily: "Don't go down, go to sleep." ”

"Xiao Chen, you play chess well, but you have to give others a little face. If you win three games in a row like this, this is not a game, and you can release the water. ”

"Oh, I see."

Chen Feng felt that he didn't understand the world yet, and as soon as he played chess, he knew that Luo Xiaohang's chess skills were not good, but he still won three games in a row, and didn't even give him a draw, so he couldn't be so strong in the future. "It's not too early, let's go upstairs and sleep." Arwen said. Chen Feng held on to the stairs and went up to the second floor. In the dark, Chen Feng accidentally stepped on someone's hand. "Dick hair, I don't have eyes, I stepped on it." Luo Xiaohang said angrily.

"I'm sorry, I didn't see it."

"Be careful, if I don't see the new kid, I'll beat you, my hands will be crushed by you." Chen Feng returned to his bed. Luo Xiaohang slept and put his palms on the ground. The aisle is narrow, and I accidentally stepped on it. The bed was also cramped, like lying on a stretcher. What made Chen Feng uneasy was not this bed, but Luo Xiaohang's words. I didn't expect Luo Xiaohang's language to be so vulgar.

"The newcomer, if you say I'm sorry, you forgive him, don't be so careful."

"If it weren't for Arwen's face, I would have beaten him up, as if he didn't have eyes." Zeng Chao got out of the mosquito net. "Let's go to bed early, I have to get up tomorrow to start work, don't be unable to get up again." He turned off the lights, and it was pitch black upstairs. Arwen's bed was next to Chen Feng's bed. "Chen Feng, go to bed early. We all read little and have little culture, so don't mind. ”

"I didn't do it right."

"You didn't come out at a young age, did you just come out of school?"

"Uh-huh. I guess I went to high school. You didn't get into college, did you? ”

"Sort of."

"Then you have the highest education in our school. Xiao Zeng and Xiao Luo both came out after graduating from junior high school. I haven't graduated from elementary school yet. It would be nice if I could go to college. You'll be able to sit at your desk. You don't have to huddle through a crowded dormitory and do menial work. ”

"Awen, how do you speak, who does the lowly work?" Luo Xiaohang said.

"Isn't it? With the most basic salary, doing work that others don't want to do. The workers are all in a higher position than we are, and we are now serving their diet. Arwen said.

"I can also go into the factory and do things. Am I higher than you? You don't divide everyone into three, six, nine, and so on, everyone has their own ambitions. Luo Xiaohang said.

"Is your ambition to chop vegetables in a fast food restaurant?"

"You don't want to do it here, you don't want to do it here." The two got into an argument.

Suddenly the door rang again, and Boss Tu and the proprietress returned, and they stopped arguing. The owner went upstairs and squeezed upstairs with them. As soon as Boss Tu came back, there was gradually no sound upstairs. The guy started to sleep, but Chen Feng couldn't sleep. He always felt that mosquitoes were biting him, and the man got used to sleeping, and soon he snored like thunder. Chen Feng buried his head in the quilt and forced himself to sleep, because he had to get up early tomorrow to work. At night, the rats take advantage of the opportunity to make waves. The ingredients and seasonings upstairs are their happy place, and the sound of rats grinding their teeth is endless. The rats steal the ingredients, and it's hard for the guys to take care of it, and it seems that it's okay to give the rats a little bit of so much rice upstairs, as long as the rats don't fight. After the rat was full, it stopped making sounds, and Chen Feng gradually fell asleep. He dreamed that he was catching loaches with his friends, and they were fighting, but when they didn't catch them, they started a mud fight, and the mud was thrown all over their bodies, and when they went back, they would be scolded again, but how happy they were then, and when they grew up, they could never go back to their childhood.

After sleeping for a few hours, Chen Feng was woken up. The proprietress urged the guys to get up, and the proprietress shouted: "Get up, it's past 7 o'clock, and the boss has delivered all the dishes to the door." "Guys, get up, Chen Feng and Zeng Chao took out the half bag of potatoes left over from yesterday. Chen Feng began to peel potatoes. There is another knife worker named Xiao Zhao in the fast food restaurant, who is also relatively thin, has a long face, and is quite fashionable, dressed in a white pony coat and with a tuft of curly hair. The proprietress asked him to cut a few potatoes, and the shredded potatoes he cut were wide and narrow, and the proprietress didn't want him, but there was a shortage of people in the store, so the boss applied for him. Chen Feng is a handyman, and his salary is a little lower than theirs. After being busy for half an hour, you can see groups of office workers. They were in a hurry, and they didn't pay any attention to the fellows who cut vegetables. Because this row of shops are all for lunch and dinner, breakfast is a little quieter. Chen Feng is slicing potatoes faster and faster, and he can basically supply them to cut. Lao Wang was riding a bicycle, his fat body was writhing in the car, and he jumped off the bicycle. "I'm sorry, boss, I'm late again."

"It's okay, go pick up the beans and cut them for them." Lao Wang took a bundle of beans, picked off the head and tail, and handed it to the knife worker. "Lao Wang, I fought for a few rounds last night, and I couldn't get up." Zeng Chao said. "If you have a wife, you will use it to fight, and you will not show it to others." Zeng Chao and Lao Wang talked about yellow jokes. "Lao Wang, I'm almost done, and I still have a lot of dishes to make." The proprietress couldn't stand it and asked them to talk less. When the guy saw that the proprietress was angry, he stopped talking and worked with his head down.

The guy had a short break after finishing the dishes. Some of them smoked cigarettes, some put down disco, and watched bikini girls on TV pole dance. This time is also the busiest time for the master. The vegetables are cut and ready to be fried. Today is payroll day, and the guy is a little excited. Boss Tu gave them a red envelope and said, "Xiao Chen, this is your salary, you go and count it." Chen Feng has a salary of 1,000 yuan, although the salary is not high, but his heart is still full of joy. The guy took his salary, went to wash his feet, went to sing. Chen Feng called home. The call went through. "Chen Feng, are you okay outside? Why haven't you called for so long? "The voice of the old father." I hit last time, and you went to carry the wood? Zhao Liang told me. You don't have to carry the wood, you get caught by the Forestry Bureau, and you have to be fined. I'm getting paid this month, I'm sending you the money. ”

"I just got paid, and I still need your living expenses, and I can still do things. When Dad earns money, let's come back to study. ”

"Dad, I don't want to read it. It's useless to read, there are a lot of bosses out there, and I haven't read any books, I want to earn money now and honor you. ”

"If you don't study, how can you be promising? I can still do it now, I don't want you to be filial. Do you want to read for yourself? I'll borrow some more money, and you come back to study. ”

"Dad, I, I don't want to read anymore, if I go to study again, I will earn money myself, and you don't want to borrow money."

"Whatever you want." Chen Feng's father coughed a few times.

"You have to take care of your body, don't really go to the wood and hurt your body."

"I know, you take care of yourself." The old father had hung up the phone, and every time Chen Feng called home, his heart was very heavy. I went back to study, and with my father's character, he would let him read even if he gritted his teeth. When he was studying, his family either borrowed money or owed it. My parents worked as farmers at home and had no regular source of income. Tuition is the most distressing thing for him, the teacher came to the house to ask about the tuition, and he hid in the toilet and did not dare to come out. My father was in poor health, with rheumatism, waist and leg pain, and various chronic diseases. The family's income depended on his father cutting some wood in the mountains to sell, and sometimes he was fined by the Forestry Bureau for stealing rare trees. Look at my father's thin body and the wrinkles crawling on his face. Chen Feng hopes that he will grow up quickly and go out to earn money so that his father can rest.